@GreenTea200 Yes and it was also a big hit for Freddy Martin and His Orchestra, not to mention it was sung by Horton, The Elephant in the Warner Brothers' cartoon version of Dr. Seuss' "Horton Hatches The Egg".
I picked up this roll at an antique mall in Caloma, MI a few weeks ago. It was in surprisingly good shape for it's age and looked like it had not been stored properly for years. Antique shops are generally not a good place to buy piano rolls unless the dealer has been able to test them. I took a chance and came home with three near perfect 65 year old piano rolls at 3 bucks a pop. This title was a rare find indeed and worth more than 3 bucks!
Yup... a spinet does not offer the fullness of an upright wherein an upright does not offer the fullness of a grand. This Kimball actually sounds a lot better in person than it does in this horroble recording environment. The hammers are a little hard as well.
@pm0501 Actually I didn't think the video sounded too bad! Funny, considering when I was little, player pianos really creeped me out (I found it unsettling to see a piano playing by itself).
Love this song!
olmose 1 year ago
Wow, thanks for sharing this wonderful bit of nostalgia!
vampyrikus 2 years ago
cool video. :)
that song was co-written by Jack Owens, the Cruising Crooner. he was also my grand uncle.
myspace/jackowenscruisingcrooner for more songs
GreenTea200 3 years ago
@GreenTea200 Yes and it was also a big hit for Freddy Martin and His Orchestra, not to mention it was sung by Horton, The Elephant in the Warner Brothers' cartoon version of Dr. Seuss' "Horton Hatches The Egg".
disneyfan81 1 year ago
I picked up this roll at an antique mall in Caloma, MI a few weeks ago. It was in surprisingly good shape for it's age and looked like it had not been stored properly for years. Antique shops are generally not a good place to buy piano rolls unless the dealer has been able to test them. I took a chance and came home with three near perfect 65 year old piano rolls at 3 bucks a pop. This title was a rare find indeed and worth more than 3 bucks!
pm0501 3 years ago
Yup... a spinet does not offer the fullness of an upright wherein an upright does not offer the fullness of a grand. This Kimball actually sounds a lot better in person than it does in this horroble recording environment. The hammers are a little hard as well.
pm0501 3 years ago
@pm0501 Actually I didn't think the video sounded too bad! Funny, considering when I was little, player pianos really creeped me out (I found it unsettling to see a piano playing by itself).
disneyfan81 1 year ago
nice roll, but these small pianos dont sounds as nice as a full upright, to tinny sounding to me :)
but nice piano and roll, thats a hard song to find
Turkeydoodlers 3 years ago